(Referring to Rachel's coverage last night...
What this segment misses is what is happening with "extended voting hours" in Ohio. In Ohio you can go to the Board of Elections to vote early if you chose and a very large number of people did in 2008. That year the Boards of Elections in the major counties maintained evening hours, Saturday morning hours, even the occasional Sunday. Good of course for working people of course and they made good use of that.
This year that is changing. Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) and Summit County (Akron) have been limited to "normal business hours" while at the same time big Republican suburban ring counties are voting to be open evenings and weekends. The implications are obvious. If you are a working stiff in those counties there is no need for extra hours to accommodate you. But if you are working stiff in Butler County or Warren County, reliably Republican counties then by all means your convenience must be accommodated. Same is true in Medina and Portage Counties near Cleveland.
We in Cincinnati have not yet voted on this issue but our Republican colleagues are indicating they intend to do the same as happened in Cleveland. It remains to be seen what will happen in Columbus.
But a pattern is emerging that is troubling.
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